Improved bedstead-fastening



dini-ted 5mm @entremise JAMES E. WAITE, oE ORANGE, MAssAcEUsETTsAssIGNoR To E oDNEY HUNT, JAMES E. WAITE, AND DAVID E. ELINT, 0E sAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 107,131, dated September f, 1870.

IMPROVED BEDSTEAD-PASTEING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same,

To all persons to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I. JAMES H. WAITE, of Orange, of the county of -Franklin of the State of Massachusetts, ha've invented a new and useful Improvement in Bedstead-Fastenings; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingr specification and represented in the accompanyingdrawing, of which- Figure l is a. fiont view;

Figure 2, a rear elevation; and

Figure 3, a vertical section o' the 'one portion or the fein-ale or socket part ofthe fastening.

Figure 4 is atop view;

I fignre 5, a. front elevation; and

Figure (i,Y a rear view of the other or male port-ion of the fastening, such part heilig selnicircnlar in forni or thereabouts, as shown.

The ist or socket part, A, is constructed with 'two entrance-ports, a a, and with a slot, b, leading down from each ot' such ports, each, slot being flanked by two wedges or inclined planes b' b'.

v Furthermore, holes, c ce, for the reception ot' screws for screwing the-part A to the bed-post ota bedstead are made in such part A.

The curved part B I construct of a form analagous tc that ot a horseshoe, that is, curved as represented, but haring, at each terminus a head, C, for to project from cach ot' the opposite. sides ot the curved parts and with each of Athe projecting portions d d beveled in opposite directions on its inner edge, in manner as shown at e f, the projecting parts l d being to operate with the inclined planes b' b'.

Furthermore, the part B is constructed with projections, q g g, extended from one side of it far enough to be even with the inner face of the bed-rail when the part B is sunk within such or applied thereto, in manuell as shown in Figure 7, which -is intended to represent the part B as within a curved groove made in the rail R.

A cap-piece of wood, either glued or screwed to the rail, is to cover that part of the portion'- B which mayv he within the rail, and is to bear on or be in contact with the outer faces ofthe projections g. The projections enable the part B to be sunk wit-hin the rail to a greater depth than the thickness of such part, so as to carry the projections d d back to the proper distances with reference to thefaces of the rail. vThe projections g are advantageous in other respects.

` rlhe construction of the parts A and B lin manner as described enables them to be used for either side of a bedstead, that is, for connecting either rail to either,

of' its posts, and thereby does away with the necessity of having separate right-and-left connections as usually made, and which are constructed as shown inv Figures 8, 9, 10, and l1 of the drawiug,'figs. 8 and 9 being front elevations ot' the two opposite or right and left post fixtures, and figs. 10 and 1l heilig representations of the rail h'xtures to connect with the post lixtures..

It will be observed that each oi the-said'xtures ,I hasbut two inclined planes or projections, they heilig shown in gs. 8 and 9 at k 7c, and in figs. 10 and l1 at l I.

le avoid the use ct therights-aud-lefts by so constructing the parts A1B that they will answer for connecting each post 0i' a bedsteud to its next 4adjacent rail.

Therefore, I do not claim the bedstead-tastening made as represented in figs. 8, 9, 10, and 1l; nordo I claim a bedstead-fastening constructed as represented in the United States patent No. 87,380.

I claim- As a new or improved manufacture, the bedsteadfastener B, as provided with the projections g g g, and constructed in otherv respects as described, for use with the felly part A, made in manner as explained and represented.

- JAMES H. WAITE. Witnesses: 

